Ownership & Rights-Property, Minerals, Prospecting & Access, winter seminar Options

[Caveman]

I also have many of the same questions that Sunspiret has, and need help in figuring out how to go about it correctly. Karen and I als have 35 acres in Westcliffe where we have built a cabin. We have the mineral rights to it also. I was hoping to be able to attend the seminar to learn more about exactly what this entails.

[ASTROBLEME]

No one has any thoughts?! ........
Let's try a slightly different approach then........
Who reading this thread currently own land?

CP,

I own land and water...

[swizz]

Who reading this thread currently own land?

Technically... 'everyone' reading this (who is a U.S. citizen) owns land if I'm not mistaken.

[swizz]

Hi all!
Frankly, I am surprised that no one has responded to this. I am not a mountain land owner but sometime in the future I would like to aquire a claim that I can (at least) break even on. What I was hoping to find at the seminar was info on how to search county land records. Do you just walk in and ask to see a map of all current claims in the county? Can I ask to see all the maps of a particular drainage? Say, Cottonwood Creek, for example, from the Arkansas river up to the top of Cottonwood Pass. Or Fish Creek from the North Fork of the Poudre to the WY state line.
I understand that claims need to be in terms of "township and range" but I don't understand how to find that info. Or even exactly how that system works. This stuff can be found on the LR2000 system, (I have heard) but that whole thing seems to be cumbersome and hard to figure out.
Larimer County has a map system that can tell who pays the tax on any piece of land in the county. Do other counties have the same kind of system? if so, where can I find them?
These are a few of the things that I would find helpful, and maybe this will stimulate some posts. If all this is covered in the archives please point me in the right direction as I haven't had time to go through them all. I guess that it all boils down to: when I go into the courthouse I want to ask for exactly what I need (and not look like a bumbling fool), spending as little time in the records as possible and as much in the field as possible. can anyone help a bumbling fool? Thanks in advance!

Whew... that's a lot of questions. All good to ask and very worthy of discussion.
It would be difficult to address all of them in this thread as it would stray in many different directions. The info is definitely in various threads throughout the archives of this site but specifics regarding any of your questions are always Topic worthy on their own. Start a topic on one or more of those questions and I'll jump right in!

BUT... this is a great reason to have the seminar. It would be really nice to cover ALL the bases and and ask questions first-hand. An LR2000 tutorial, etc.... all that fun stuff! The key is a 'whole' understanding and I think that a seminar like Dan has offered would be a great venue if there's enough interest and the location is fairly central.
Knowing your ownership and mining rights as a U.S. Citizen is beneficial, empowering, and even...... profitable?

[swizz]

Karen and I als have 35 acres in Westcliffe where we have built a cabin. We have the mineral rights to it also.

I am jealous of you Cave people, that sounds nice!
..... and your new avatar
(regarding signature... put the word 'Caveman' between the ] [ font brackets and it will work!)

[Caveman]

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Caveman

[Caveman]

Thanks for the help Chris!

[CP]

Awesome answers and questions folks, now we're cookin' with fire!!

Johnny, Caveman and Swizz are all on the right track for the question I posed. Who else reading owns...? Minerals, land, water, timber .... ?

Technically... 'everyone' reading this (who is a U.S. citizen) owns land if I'm not mistaken.

Bingo and no you are not mistaken!

Very nice to have mineral rights included with your mountain property too Caveman.

We will have many more discussions in the future that cover all these topics and in person is always where I see more ground/material covered for the group. Swizz can give his input on this as he's personally attended one of my field tutorials for the LR2000 system a few years back. LR system wasn't easy to discuss in the field but we made it work.

We can also start some new threads in the club members protected forum section to discuss in detail for all club members benefit in the future. Also, we have the monthly club members meeting in chat where I and others will be happy to discuss these topics and or another time we all schedule together in chat.

Start up some new threads in the club members section folks, we are always happy to help you club members anytime with questions like this.

[CP]

I've posted up some threads as well as brought back some older ones to answer/discuss some of these questions in the club members protected section. Check it out!